facebook admin classifying thousands of russians as interested in treason and supposedly for advertising purposes raising concerns over who might really want to target such users. donald trump held his health think youth summit with lot of success unleashing a storm of criticism from all ends of the us political spectrum and the american media. are i don't know which side is the bride and which side of that is the groom anderson but it sort of feels like we're in a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. also this hour full french honors the victorious world cup team ripping turns home to a hero's welcome. i think.

this is our two international bringing you your live news update with me welcome to the program. three social media giants facebook google and twitter are facing the u.s. congress at the moment or at ledge political bias on their platforms the hearing is also expected to address advertising practices and fake news it comes as facebook admits that its algorithm labeled thousands of russian users was quote interested in treason supposedly for advertising purposes and that's raising concerns over who might really want to target these users. explains. it's simple

facebook exists to serve advertisers not users not you and i said a rerun of its. advertisers pay money they want direct access to the right uses the target audience you might fall into the interested in islam category or interested in homosexuality group it depends on the things you click on line which facebook tracks and then advertisers or governments can tag you but one of those categories was treason interested in treason officially russian people who facebook deemed as anti government to the russian and facebook confirmed it to us treason was included as a category given its historical significance given it is an illegal activity we have removed it as an interest category that is their official statement they added

that the key word was hardly ever used by advertisers which means that it was used there were people out there searching for treason inclined russians and serving them with presumably propaganda encouraging them to commit treason against russia months it was found out facebook removed the category but the pundits managed to twist even vat this isn't about sixty five thousand russians being targeted with foreign propaganda meddling in internal russian politics that an see they say the real control over see is that these people could be targeted by russian authorities imagine if ace book categorize americans as potential traitors fact advertisers that blog zuckerberg op have expressed how upset i am that the

russians try to use our tool to sow distrust what they did is room and we're not going to stand for it. and that's the meat of it when it's russians being targeted by propaganda to sow distrust in russia adds five until you get caught r.t. has sent a request to a number of human rights and journalist groups asking for comment as to whether such a practice constitutes meddling in a country's internal affairs four of them including human rights watch and transparency international have responded to our requests so far saying they are not in a position to comment journalists and radio host john gaunt believes facebook's power and influence has become overwhelming if this was americans who were being targeted there would be absolute outrage in congress and across the whole of the american media and clearly it was looks like it was being used to spread dissenting russia and that's wrong with this also be given to government spot so that

governments could enforce their will against the people we already know the algorithms against anybody who's got a slightly roy have said to view we know about shadow of a shadow account i just think we've all been rather foolish came along facebook and twitter facebook in particular we gave all our information all our history all our pictures all our significant events and they have literally got too much power and that's scary on every level whether you're living in russia america or indeed in western europe staying with facebook the social media giants targeted ads were also apparently used by some in the u.k. labor party to deceive their own leader that's according to a recently published book control delete how politics and the media crushed our democracy by tom baldwin. when they were told to pay for nationwide it's regarded as such as one voter registration they made sure that few saw such messages except

the dinosaurs of left wing activists if it was there for them they thought it must be for everyone it was and that's how targeted ads can work senior labor party members tasked with spreading corbin's campaign messages through facebook ahead of the two thousand and seventeen general election so let it only german corben himself and his closest aides of the target group this was to ensure that as few people as possible in the u.k. would see those messages and at the same time following their party leader and thinking his order had been carried out we spoke to former m i five intelligence officer an emotion she told us facebook is notorious for being used to sway public opinion sometimes an ethically. in the u.k. it was announced that facebook has been manipulated with micro-targeting and try and control and bill dissent within the official government opposition the labor

party and gerry corbin has been targeted in this too so you know this goes across all sorts of countries i think we have seen time and time again over the last decade that facebook in different ways is allowed itself and its data to be used they do it to make money but it allows the spies in the west to do what they want is allows corporations to target micro adverts electrets. donald trump has completed his european trip which began at the nato summit and ended in a historic meeting with lot of mere putin positive steps and real progress those are the words both leaders used to describe their talks but there are poor is sparking outrage in media back home. he went on to attack his own people and institutions while standing next to the russian president i don't know which side is the bride and where side of the groom manners are but it sort of feels like we're at a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in this case when it comes to putin the president's taking

a pass american politicians join the media and denouncing trump after he vouch for poor wouldn't want to election meddling came up at their news conference. president putin did you want president trump to win the election and if you direct any of your officials to help him do that why should americans and why should president trump believe your statement that russia did not intervene in the twenty sixteen election do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference or twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did who do you believe i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the twelve people i think that's an incredible of if there's

a rebuttal but if i was an intelligence officer myself and i do know how dull ca's are compiled. what conclusions can only be made by a court and not by an intelligence service. and when that didn't happen to outrage his behavior is so inexplicable and so against the interests of the united states i never would have. a u.s. president would get duped by the you know former k.g.b. and i. don't want trump should be arrested for threes and the moment he sets foot on american soil. look traits in trees in a very serious words i have avoided them from the early two years but today's trumpet and summits cannot be sugarcoated with. this was the day in american president stood on foreign soil next to a motorist lying thug and refused to back his own country patriots need to stand up

and reject the behavior of this president john brennan former cia boss and now media darling even went as far as to brand trump's appearance treason donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises to exceed the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treasonous not only would trump's comments in this silly who's who in the pocket of putin republican patriots were you not only does the department of justice fail to provide any conclusive evidence linking the kremlin to the alleged crime it actually admits that the suppose it conspiracy did not affect the vote count or the election so a confrontation with putin over meddling was clearly the desired result from defended himself from the attacks and perhaps his favorite way through twitter he stressed that he has great confidence in u.s. intelligence which has repeatedly stated that russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen election but trump added he can't focus on the past as the two nuclear

superpower us must get along we spoke to former congressman ron paul who believes that american media are used to portraying russia as an enemy. but you also mentioned so far in this program about the american media and that is a big problem because for some reason they're almost unanimously endorsing the idea that we have to have an enemy and at this point especially for the last twenty years they've been working very hard to make russia the enemy and i think this is this is wrong and it's not the democrats alone that do this it's the democrats and along with some disgruntled republicans who just they just don't like trump but no i was very pleased with what went on and it's a step in the right direction they i think the biggest thing that if they ever had a serious discussion i guess it would come out on how much we've been involved when we should be involved for instance in ukraine and how that occurred but if they don't have want to concentrate on those problem and they want to look forward i

think that is great but i would like to i think the next best day ever would be for us to reassess this and say that trump is going in the right direction and talk amanda getting rid of the sanctions on russia meanwhile vladimir putin took part in a heated interview with the american channel fox news in which he was pressed on key issues relating to russia. firstly that russia was a state that has never meddled in the internal affairs of the us and in particular has never meddled in its elections secondly but wait just wait just let me have some patience if you're just going to be we think that it was possible to meddle in the us elections in the territory of russia and to influence the choice of millions of american instant people you know it's ridiculous. at the prosperous mission but i'm not asking whether they influenced i'm asking whether they try i will answer now what. the hackers about whom everyone was talking about i

will turn to it do not worry. emails as they told us and there was information that inside the democratic party but there were manipulations in favor of one of the candidates and that is all and that the leadership of the executive body of the party resigned this fact and that was the most important thing in all of it that the manipulations of the us public opinion must be stopped and they had to apologize to the voters what now mr miller mr president. if you don't like miles will tell you then and i will stay silent but if you want to americans to hear my opinion i mean have more patience they are going to be that being mr miller and his colleagues. but why mr miller and his colleagues let me finish speaking of the disrespectful this time you won't stop me.

relations between the u.s. and russia the hostages all of you internal political struggles. and we want to be given some documents on this issue at least some material but as you see no one is saying anything specific that it's like in the case of the accusations against us over the meddling in the us political process we have not given any documents and now we see that people became the victims of the so-called but i have not even heard the names of these people before you are these people from what little they suffer and why. they picked up the bottle that was used to attack scrupled i can't may i ask you one last question sir. but let us handle this issue first what bottle who picks it up and from where and what is its chemical formula. you know whether there are different reasons for which these people have suffered and maybe these reasons are inside the u.k. . in which what no one wants to investigate this properly just through empty

accusations and what you say why worsen the relations between our countries when russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly so look at it then you can work with. the you see this as a quite an effort. by the west in recent years to isolate russia. we see that these efforts do not see any success and they could never have seen it given the size of the violence in russia on the scale of global security and in economics and i mean energy costs are part of the world's economic system the understanding of what is uniting us and on what we have to work together but it is leading us to the idea that it is necessary to stop the attempts to fight each other and on the contrary to unite our efforts for overcoming common difficulties and problems i think it is a good start. to start. just hours after putting an

interim wrapped up their talks new accusations appeared of moscow interfering in american affairs a russian woman was charged by the department of justice with conspiracy to act as a russian agent twenty nine year old maria abortion the who recently graduated from american university in washington d.c. was arrested on sunday she is accused of developing relations with those who have influence in american politics to advance russia's interests her attorney made a statement denying she is an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but they showed no interest in speaking to or we brought up the issue with political analyst. what you're going to hear regarding this this russian citizen is she is called a russian agent what is missed completely is that agent should be referred to as a lobbyist and agent in law in american law means a representative of when american media say agents they think secret

agent. i spray an agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not the victorious front squat has been greeted back home by a manual mccrum at the presidential residence that started more after a short break. so.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. for some one of the brits. to go on to be prosperous what with the full story of the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of the. first six. thank you.

thank you. i have all of this is art international welcome back to the program hundreds of thousands of people packed onto the sham city say in paris to give a hero's welcome to the victorious world cup squad the winners were taken to the presidential residence where they were greeted by manual macross. of the. of the. they said i'm excited. by the way seeing. this all the way. i see they seeing just standing on they think she's right. sally's a right going i. feel.

sorry for a period of jets flying over when my colleagues on the french try to cheer the moment i have these winners of the world cup he doesn't need to come down the street people be watching not see him for the last two months fighting i'm praying that they would win the world cup i may have done it in other words like it's just a feeling incredible though that the energy everything soon then coming here is was incredibly was but your but now the feeling was a sense of unity and everything was absolutely incredible i'm an american and i'm living here this is such a joy to see all this you know fight it's really just great to embody the spirit this is what france is all about we do study here all their words from the players just sitting there on the realizes this is this beautiful. sissy under the banner still growing oh oh have sunk so i. it is the city of paris is actually renamed some of the metro stations you know not all of these places including are not trained don't want to show up as being renamed as no time did you

show up in oh no but the manager of that will cup team of course he was also the captain affronts is will cup winning team back in ninety ninety eight i did not think i was there i accidentally ecstatic. a rapturous reception also awaited the croatia squad as they returned home the team was driven through the capital in an open top bus chaired by around one hundred thousand people getting to the final with the country's best ever performance at the world cup having reached the semifinal back in one nine hundred ninety eight kept in the church was also named player of the tournaments meanwhile some young fans inspired by the world cup final decided to recreate it. let let. let.

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are lived her life. lived. a century has passed since the last russian royal family their mom of four executed by their bolshevik captors in one nine hundred seventeen son nicholas was forced to give up his throne as the february revolution broke out on the streets the royal

family was detained and moved all members of the last remaining family were shot dead and burned to mark the anniversary r.t. dot com has launched an interactive project which bring a fair amount of final years to life for a digital age. that's

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apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. they gave us national camera. roughly once they showed some will pay you for the. future own cool videos doing the world cup and someone with the broccoli string am . going down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education. higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold. so it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you know models if. that's true. they couldn't be. launched is the place of students in this business model for college i was born

now i'm an extreme reborn education the new global economic war. greetings and salutation. it's bad enough having to deal with our privacy being violated by a lated constantly by our friends of the national security agency what with our online and phone conversations consistently being sucked up in mosques and stored in a massive and spooky priscilla b. in utah seriously spooky priscilla in utah look it up but soon we may not even find a privacy a piece of privacy to our minds in the great churches of capitalism yes the brick and mortar retail stores may no longer be a private all things to the retail colossus that is wal-mart according to

a new patent filed with the us government the retail giant is looking to install a new technology in stores that would allow wal-mart officials to monitor employee productivity b.-o. audio surveillance of checkout counters. naturally we're being told that the high powered microphone technology would only be used for things like employee efficiency and determining if checkout lines are too long as wal-mart states in the pattern itself a need exists for ways to capture the sounds resulting from the people in the shopping facility and determine performance of employees based on those sounds and we know we know that given wal-mart's long history of employee goodwill like punishing workers for sick days or handing out paychecks so small that their employees have cost u.s. taxpayers some six billion dollars in public assistance we know that we can only assume that this new surveillance technology well will only be used for good and

that employees and customers will not have to have their privacy abused while buying clorox wipes condoms and peanut butter cocoa pavel's at three am on a tuesday night. yeah i don't think so with private industry now going full n.s.a. and of the auspices of efficiency and security you better believe that it's time to start watching the hawks. that's. as it gets to the bottom so it's. like you know that i got. hit with. this is. exactly. right.